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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 11 months ago

This came and went as a trend.

how along ago was that? before 11? before 8? shits come a long way even in just the last 5 years. linux on the desktop is out-of-the-box at least as capable as windows 7, and mint has a lovely curated app store for easy app installs.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that's why I pointed out this used to be presented as a placeholder for testing the hardware before installing a non-OEM Windows while when it's done now it's more of a "this device is meant to run Linux" thing.

It was more frequent but not exactly the same dynamic.

And yeah, this was twenty years ago. I'm dead and buried.

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